Corruption Cases (2006 - 2014)

Detaining Armen Lablajyan, the head of Forest Control Department of the Ministry of Nature Protection for bribery affected Tigran Melikyan, who was detained for murdering T. Matevosyan, forester of “Motcor” chapter of “Dsegh” forestry enterprise, Lori province.

In 2014 Yerevan State University announced a tender for construction work, especially for repairing the main entrance staircase of its central building by allocating an amount equivalent to 600.000 USD.

Her bridegroom and the daughter of MP Karine Pogosyan of RA National Assembly’s "Republican" (RPA) Faction intimidated the former girlfriend of the bridegroom, whereas the police saw absence of corpus delicti.

According to numerous media publications "RepIndustryProject" Open Joint-Stock Company whom the government pays enormous money and rents for areas belongs to Aram Harutyunyan, Kotayk Provincial Governor or former Minister of Nature Protection.

In order to provide customer service for calling to Armenia from abroad ArmenTel receives money from foreign operators, which is transferred to other company’s account registered in the offshore, instead of being transferred to the company’s account.

The prosecutor general’s office conducted economic inspections in the penitentiary institutions of the Ministry of Justice in the latest couple of months by the instruction of prosecutor general Gevorg Kostanyan, and exposed a number of violations.

Behind the demolition of one of Yerevan’s historical-cultural monuments – the Afrikyan house, located at 11 Teryan St. - is one of Armenia’s wealthy officials, RA Finance Minister, former Head of State Revenue Committee Gagik Khachatryan.

The Control Chamber of Armenia exposed violations in spending of Yerevan Municipality budget resources as a result of inspection of the legitimacy of procurement and the effectiveness of the procurement system

Since numerous applications sent to the country’s authorities remained unanswered and no justice was found in courts, the letter writers addressed an open letter to RA President Serzh Sargsyan, RA Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan, RA Chief of Police Vladimir Gasparyan.